When comparing Amazon SES vs Sarv Transactional Email Service (Sarv TES ), the Slant community recommends Amazon SES for most people. In the question“What are the best transactional email services?”Amazon SES is ranked 2nd while Sarv Transactional Email Service (Sarv TES ) is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Amazon SES is:

Amazon SES has one of the most competitive pricings on the market with just $0.10 per 1000 emails.

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Pro

Highly cost effective

Amazon SES has one of the most competitive pricings on the market with just $0.10 per 1000 emails.

Pro

Barebones service

Amazon SES is created to be a simple service for just sending emails through the API. If you need only to send emails and only that, then Amazon SES should at least be a good contender for your service of choice.

Pro

Free tier if using EC2

If you are hosting your web application on Amazon EC2, then the first 62,000 emails each month are free.

Pro

Pay as you go service

Sarv offers two plans; cost per subscribers, and cost per email.

The cost per subscriber plan is 25,000 subscribers for INR 6,050 monthly. The next plan, cost per email, gives a user 25,000 emails for INR 1,000 monthly.

Pro

24/7 friendly customer support

24/7 support via a support ticket system, a toll-free number, e-mail, and live-chat.

Pro

High and instant email delivery

Sarv allows you to analyze your open and click reports according to the geolocation of the subscriber and target your customers directly based on their whereabouts.

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Free trial offered, with no credit card needed

Sarv offers a 30 day free trial, and doesn’t require a credit card. The free plan includes 1000 emails. You just need to enter your email id and must verify your account. You’ll get a user id and password.

Pro

A user-friendly interface

Drag and drop editor that makes it easier to design creative mailers. No need to have skillful hands in HTML and other heavy software, just to design a template.

Cons

Con

Poor error handling

When email could not be received by the recipient due to some failure on their side, SES just drops it. No error recovery, reporting is not that great either.

Con

Too lightweight

Since SES has been stripped down to do only one thing and do it well (send emails), there will be a lot of things missing which you will have to add on your own if you wish to have them.

Things like analytics, template hosting, design tools etc... are missing from SES. Although there are third-party tools that allow you to use Amazon SES's API to send emails with all the above features added.